The Silence of Absence

The silence of your absence

Is a lonely place to be

Disappointment

My companion

Since you went away

Memories of your words

Are with me every day

Like echoes in my heart

Of some lost melody

From the shadows of silence

I look for you each day

I wonder where you are

When you go away

And what always keeps you

From returning to me

I see shadows of your presence

But so far away from me

Have you nothing left at all

Nothing left to say

Friendship is forever

That is what I believed

But I wonder now

Since you have gone away

Still I wait beneath our tree

Hoping you will return

Where you placed

In its deepest heart

Your precious words to me

That place you may return to

If you think of me some day

A place you may remember

If I'm in your thoughts

One day... 

Poem - Dianne Dawes ... ♥

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After The Rain ...

After so many days and nights

Of unforgiving heat

Finally a sound once familiar

Hoped for, wished for.

From a soft morning sky

Of grey and mist

Rain falling, falling

The air is fresh and cool once more

Scented with the sweet fragrance

Of rain, foliage and flowers

In this misty light-

The colours take on a softer hue

Brown will soon return to green.

The parched earth

Dry and thirsty

Drinks rapturously.

Languid leaves and foliage

Glisten again

The trees revive, sigh

Refreshed

Their thirst quenched.

From small pools

Rivulets form and flow

To the lower reaches

Of the valley.

Their journey fulfilled

To replenish and swell 

The dry creek beds

And the water of life will flow once again ...

Prose - Dianne Dawes ... ♥

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